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Kissing, tongue, bacteria

What do all of these things have in common? According to an article recently published in Medical News Today, kissing a person for 10-seconds transfers about 80 million bacteria from one mouth to the other. How does this affect me? Are you a person who has never had dental decay in your life and one day you go in and have several new areas of decay? Well this is one of the potential reasons for the new decay.

While here in the office, we often stress the need to scrape your tongue. Why is this so important? The article states that bacteria only stays in your saliva for a small period of time, however the bacteria stay on the tongue longer. Your tongue has these finger-like projections that allow the bacteria to stay on it longer if not scraped.